THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, President Tudjman,
for making me feel so welcome. And thank you for coming out in such
large and enthusiastic numbers. It's wonderful to be here in Zagreb
and Croatia. And I thank you for making me feel so welcome.

I have just come from Bosnia, from visiting our troops
there who are working with the others to support the peace process.
And I come here to thank President Tudjman and the people of Croatia
for supporting the peace process in Bosnia. (Applause.) I come to
support not only the peace process, but the federation in Bosnia
between the Muslims and the Croats, the peaceful agreement for the
return of Croatian lands in Eastern Slovonia -- (applause) -- and the
ultimate partnership of Croatia with not only the United States, but
with other Western nations who believe in freedom and human rights
and democracy and peace and progress, working together. (Applause.)

My friends, on behalf of the United States, I have been
honored to work for peace from the Middle East to Northern Ireland to
Bosnia. And I believe that in these conflicts I have seen that the
fight has not been between Arab and Jew in the Middle East, not
between Catholic and Protestant in Northern Ireland, not between Serb
and Croat and Muslim in Bosnia. It is a conflict between those who
choose peace and those who would stay with war; those who look to a
better future and those who are trapped in the past; those who open
their arms to their neighbors and those who would keep their fist
clenched.

So I ask you in closing to choose peace, choose the
future, open your arms. The United States extends its hand in
friendship to you.